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Where writers of the past read a passage in different ways. Each question opens its chapter’s page with their answers side by side; the site doesn’t say which is right.

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Genesis · 135

Exodus · 100

Leviticus · 47

Leviticus 1:4What did laying a hand on the animal’s head mean?
Leviticus 2:11Why were yeast and honey never burned on the altar?
Leviticus 2:13Why was salt added to every offering, and why is it called “the salt of the covenant”?
Leviticus 3:1Why is this called a “peace offering”?
Leviticus 3:16–17Why did all the fat belong to Yahweh, so that Israel was not to eat it?
Leviticus 4:2Which sins could a sin offering cover, and which could it not?
Leviticus 4:20–35In what sense was the worshipper “forgiven” when the priest made atonement with a sin offering?
Leviticus 5:1What is the “public adjuration” the witness hears in verse 1?
Leviticus 6:12–13Why did the fire on the altar have to be kept burning and never go out?
Leviticus 7:15–18Why did the meat of a peace offering have to be eaten within a day or two?
Leviticus 7:23–25Was the fat of cattle, sheep and goats forbidden at every meal, or only when the animal was offered?
Leviticus 8:12Why was the anointing oil poured on Aaron’s head?
Leviticus 8:33–35Why did Aaron and his sons have to stay at the door of the Tent of Meeting for seven days?
Leviticus 9:2Why did Aaron offer a calf for his own sin offering?
Leviticus 9:23Why did Moses and Aaron go into the Tent of Meeting before Yahweh’s glory appeared?
Leviticus 9:24Where did the fire come from, and was it the first fire on the altar?
Leviticus 10:1–9What did Nadab and Abihu do wrong when they offered “strange fire”?
Leviticus 10:6–7Why weren’t Aaron and his sons allowed to mourn for Nadab and Abihu?
Leviticus 10:16–20Why was Moses content with Aaron’s answer about the sin offering?
Leviticus 11:2–47Why were some animals clean to eat and others unclean?
Leviticus 12:5Why was the mother’s time of purifying twice as long after a girl?
Leviticus 13:2–3What was the “leprosy” that the priest examined?
Leviticus 13:45–46Why did someone with leprosy cry “Unclean! Unclean!” and live outside the camp?
Leviticus 13:47–59What was the “leprosy” in clothes and leather?
Leviticus 14:4–7What did the two birds, the cedar wood, the scarlet and the hyssop mean?
Leviticus 14:14–18Why were the healed person’s right ear, thumb and big toe touched with blood and oil?
Leviticus 16:4Why did Aaron put on linen garments for this day?
Leviticus 16:8–10What does “for the scapegoat” mean (in Hebrew, “for Azazel”)?
Leviticus 17:3–5Did every animal killed for meat have to be brought to the Tent of Meeting, or only sacrifices?
Leviticus 17:11Why does the blood make atonement, and why was it not to be eaten?
Leviticus 18:5What kind of life is promised in “he shall live in them”?
Leviticus 19:18Who is the “neighbor” in “love your neighbor as yourself”?
Leviticus 20:9What did it mean to “curse” your father or mother?
Leviticus 21:1–6Why could a priest not defile himself for the dead, except for his closest family?
Leviticus 21:17–23Why could a priest with a defect eat the holy bread but not offer it?
Leviticus 22:27Why did a newborn calf, lamb or kid have to stay seven days with its mother before it could be offered?
Leviticus 22:28Why was a cow or ewe not to be killed on the same day as its young?
Leviticus 23:24What was the blowing of trumpets on the first day of the seventh month a memorial of?
Leviticus 23:42–43Why did Israel live in booths for seven days at the feast of Tabernacles?
Leviticus 24:5–9What did the twelve loaves set out before Yahweh every Sabbath mean?
Leviticus 24:22Why does the law give “one kind of law for the foreigner as well as the native-born”?
Leviticus 25:8–11Was the Jubilee the forty-ninth year or the fiftieth?
Leviticus 25:9–12What does the word “jubilee” mean?
Leviticus 26:41–43What does it mean that they will “accept the punishment of their iniquity”?
Leviticus 26:42Why does God name Jacob first, then Isaac, then Abraham?
Leviticus 27:2–8When someone vowed a person to the Lord, did that person serve at the sanctuary, or was money paid instead?
Leviticus 27:29Does “he shall surely be put to death” mean that the devoted person was killed?

Numbers · 59

Deuteronomy · 48

Joshua · 44

Judges · 32

Ruth · 8

1 Samuel · 63

2 Samuel · 46

1 Kings · 46

2 Kings · 49

1 Chronicles · 30

2 Chronicles · 56

Ezra · 18

Nehemiah · 12

Esther · 16

Job · 87

Psalms · 19

Ecclesiastes · 24

Isaiah · 17

Jeremiah · 20

Lamentations · 1

Lamentations 4:20Who is “the anointed of Yahweh,” “the breath of our nostrils,” in 4:20: King Josiah, King Zedekiah, or Christ?

Ezekiel · 2

Daniel · 16

Hosea · 4

Joel · 1

Joel 2:20Is the “northern army” in Joel 2 a swarm of locusts, or an invading nation?

Amos · 2

Obadiah · 1

Obadiah 1:21Who are the “saviors” who “go up on Mount Zion” in the last verse?

Jonah · 5

Micah · 2

Nahum · 2

Habakkuk · 3

Zephaniah · 1

Zephaniah 3:9What is the “pure language” (in Hebrew, “pure lip”) God gives the peoples in 3:9: cleaner speech and worship, lips cleansed of calling on idols, or one language for the whole earth again?

Haggai · 1

Haggai 2:7What is the “treasure of all nations” (in older Bibles, “the desire of all nations”) that Haggai says will come to the temple?

Zechariah · 1

Zechariah 9:9Why does the king in Zechariah 9:9 come riding on a donkey?

Malachi · 6

Matthew · 37

Mark · 22

Luke · 33

John · 31

Acts · 37

Romans · 22

1 Corinthians · 24

2 Corinthians · 16

Galatians · 9

Ephesians · 8

Philippians · 7

Colossians · 9

1 Thessalonians · 5

2 Thessalonians · 3

1 Timothy · 9

2 Timothy · 6

Titus · 4

Philemon · 1

Philemon 1:16–21In asking Philemon to have Onesimus back “no longer as a slave” but as “a beloved brother,” was Paul asking him to set Onesimus free?

Hebrews · 16